Sino-pak collaboration in pv sector moves ahead successfully for sustainable development

China’s leading solar solutions provider LONGI officially released here the sixth annual corporate sustainability report, providing an elaborate summary of its practices and achievements in the field of environment, society and governance (ESG) in the past year. Pakistan, as an indispensable international market for LONGI, poised to show more competitiveness in global PV market.

“Since 2020, LONGI Solar has successfully exported more than 1GW of solar panels to the Pakistani market, as a momentous milestone,” Ali Majid, General Manager, Pakistan, LONGI Solar, told Gwadar pro in an exclusive interview.

As Pakistan is one of the most vulnerable countries to the adverse impact of increasingly severe climate change, the sustainable development has become a pressing issue in the country.

Photovoltaic power generation, as the best choice to solve Pakistan’s power shortage and optimize its energy structure to a great extent based on fossil fuels, while saving foreign exchange required for energy imports, has vast potential for future development.

From 2012 to 2022, LONGI produced a total of 290GW of photovoltaic products, with the cumulative output of clean electricity exceeded 1,148,287 GWH.

According to the International Energy Agency’s global power grid average emission factor, it is equivalent to avoiding 536 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions. As for Pakistani market, both distributed and centralized PV products have market segment demand, distributed PV systems, such as rooftop solar installations on residential, commercial, and industrial buildings, have been gaining popularity in Pakistan.

Net metering policies and incentives have been introduced to promote distributed generation and allow consumers to offset their electricity bills by exporting excess power back to the grid.